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Many pro-life Americans objected to the mandate, particularly because it forced certain organizations and businesses to provide medical coverage for abortion-inducing drugs.
During her Tuesday hearing, Tanden explained disparaging remarks she previously made about opponents of the contraceptive mandate, and also reaffirmed President Biden’s support for taxpayer-funded abortion.
The Little Sisters will return to court to fight the injunction.
The settlement the University of Notre Dame won on behalf of itself and 70 other Catholic institutions could be imperiled.
Led by California and Pennsylvania, a number of states are challenging the Trump administration’s religious and moral exemptions from the federal contraceptive mandate.
Only a week earlier, the university had announced it would end contraceptive coverage Jan. 1.
Catholic college plans move for 2018, following broad religious exemptions recently added to the federal contraceptive mandate.
‘We urge the administration ... to pursue its policy goals in a way that fully respects — rather than knowingly disregards — the sincerely held and repeatedly stated religious objections of a substantial minority of our civil society,’ the Sept. 9 comments state.
‘What happened to the discussion that was supposed to take place?’ the Pittsburgh prelate said, commenting about the government’s unrelenting campaign to provide contraceptives through the diocese’s health-care plan.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of Little Sisters of the Poor, called the ruling an ‘important win.’
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